What's On Sunday

By KATHRYN SHATTUCK

Published: August 16, 2009

10 P.M. (MTV) P. DIDDY'S STARMAKERSean Combs (a k a P. Diddy), above, and Mark Burnett set out to find a stellar new recording talent with the help of industry experts in this competition series. Each week 14 performers will be coached by a team including Rodney Jerkins, a producer and songwriter for Beyonc?nd Mary J. Blige; Tamara Conniff, the editor in chief of Billboard magazine; Laurie Ann Gibson, a choreographer with ''Making the Band''; the singer and actress Kimberly Caldwell; and the manager Johnny Wright, whose clients have included Janet Jackson, New Kids on the Block, Britney Spears and the Jonas Brothers. Lady Gaga, Pete Wentz, Nicole Scherzinger and Kelly Rowland will do stints as guest judges. The winner will receive a contract with Bad Boy Records and career guidance from Mr. Combs.

9 A.M. (CNN) STATE OF THE UNION WITH JOHN KING The topic this morning is health care reform, and those discussing it include Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who also appears with Senator Arlen Specter, Democrat of Pennsylvania, and Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, on ''This Week With George Stephanopoulos,'' at 10 on ABC; Senator Kent Conrad, Democrat of North Dakota, and Senator Richard C. Shelby, Republican of Alabama, on ''Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace,'' at 10 on Fox; Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, on ''Face the Nation,'' at 10:30 on CBS; and Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, and Representative Charles B. Rangel, Democrat of New York, on ''Meet the Press,'' at 10:30 on NBC.

7 P.M. (CBS) 60 MINUTES The quarterback Michael Vick talks with James Brown about his dog-fighting conviction and reinstatement in the National Football League. Mr. Vick was recently signed by the Philadelphia Eagles.

9 P.M. (G4) 2 MONTHS, $2 MILLION Four online poker professionals in their 20s move to Las Vegas for the summer and try collectively to earn $2 million playing with their own money in this new reality series. Control central is a 10,000-square-foot mansion just beyond the strip, where a home theater has been outfitted with four 50-inch plasma monitors connected to each player's custom computer. A ''tilt room,'' filled with bats, hockey sticks, watermelons and lettuce heads, allows them to vent when things don't go as planned. So does the party scene, where the guys run up $5,000 bar tabs, dip into swanky hotel pools and lay down major cash for designer clothes and watches as they practice for their future lives as high rollers.

10 P.M. (VH1) MY ANTONIO Antonio Sabato Jr., right, who has played the steamy lover on soaps like ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' and ''General Hospital: Night Shift'' and revealed a private side as a Calvin Klein underwear model, tries to find love among 13 beautiful women sequestered in a Hawaiian paradise. There's a plot twist: his ex-wife is among them. And trouble: his mother has arrived to help him with his decision. But first Mr. Sabato makes a dramatic entrance by swimming ashore to meet the women.

10 P.M. (AMC) MAD MEN This Season 3 opener finds Pete (Vincent Kartheiser) and Ken (Aaron Staton) affected by the takeover of Sterling Cooper by a British corporation. Meanwhile Don (Jon Hamm) and Sal (Bryan Batt) learn about the powers of persuasion on a business trip to Baltimore.

10 P.M. (HBO) HUNG Ray (Thomas Jane) grows confused when he starts to have feelings for Jemma (Natalie Zea). Tanya (Jane Adams) meets a hipster who wants to smash her writer's block. And Jessica (Anne Heche) invites Ray to dinner after she runs into him at a farmers' market where he's scouting potential clients. Meanwhile Ray is starting to think that Yael (Alanna Ubach), the wife of the jerk next door (Loren Lester), is looking awfully good.

10 P.M. (E!) KOURTNEY AND KHLOE TAKE MIAMI Kourtney, near left, and Khloe Kardashian, far left, part of the ubiquitous reality-show clan, abandon ho-hum Los Angeles for sizzling South Beach, where they open a Dash boutique, dabble in radio and romance and discover that their favored mode of transportation is a private yacht. KATHRYN SHATTUCK